From the dust jacket:
In its Autumn 1908 catalog, Charles Scribner's Sons announced the publication of a novel, provisionally entitled The Wind in the Reeds, described by its author as "a book of youth—and so perhaps chiefly for youth, and those who still keep the spirit of youth alive in them." Seventy-five years later The Wind in the Willows has long been recognized as a classic.
When he was first asked to make black-and-white drawings for the story, Ernest Shepard visited Kenneth Grahame at his home. There he walked along the river-bank making sketches and seeing where the houses of the animals might be. "I love these little people," Grahame said. "Be kind to them." And later - "I'm glad you made them real." The story has become virtually inseparable from Shepard's delightful pictures. Nearly forty years later Ernest Shepard added color to all of his pictures for The Wind in the Willows, and now they appear in full color for the first time in an American edition.
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